I want to be an online novel writer. What should I do?

From a newest inbound author to a famous king close to God, there are at least three hurdles to writing the little red book.

The first is to sign a contract to complete a work.

There are many authors who have not signed the contract, such as ftp, and a group of old authors who insist on writing, such as the magical world before signing the contract, such as the prodigal son of CS- Border Town, such as Legend 3D ................................................................................................................. Writing is hard work, and I always respect those writers who insist on writing without seeking fame and fortune. This list may be renamed, but it will always exist.

Without the recommendation of the website, the road to commercialization is really difficult.

So if you want to make money by writing online, the first obstacle you have to overcome is signing a contract.

First, I like books with many signatures. The first time I saw the prodigal son in Border Town, as an ancient fan, I really felt tears in my eyes. This book was transferred to several websites, and the readers were very loyal, but for various reasons, it was buried. When I first started as an editor, I heard from my boss that many good books in the world were buried by editors. This is a wake-up call that keeps ringing in my ears. It is true that the power of website editors is really great now. They sign books they like, not books they don't like. Many editors never even read books, just look at the data and decide what books to sign. Every time I see my boss, I always feel particularly guilty. Seeing those unknown authors who insist on writing, they always feel that they have not done enough and have not done their best. In the case of 17K recommending opportunities, we are willing to publish more public works on the home page, and we are also willing to provide various opportunities to help those authors who insist on writing.

Secondly, I like to sign the book of the author who owns all the works. There are too many uncertainties in online texts. It's a pity if you sign a work and it's not finished in the end.

Many new authors have strong ideas and concise and fluent writing, but they lack control of the overall situation. At the end of the book, I'm afraid they don't even know what they are writing.

The control of the overall situation is difficult to gather without the tempering of hundreds of thousands of words.

I have talked to many authors about this problem. Most books are signed when they are tens of thousands of words. Although there is an outline, it is difficult for writers to stick to the idea of the outline. At this point, the drinker is a model, whose outline is complete and his writing is very dedicated.

After signing the contract, most writers can write very fast at the beginning until they meet the first bottleneck.

This bottleneck is roughly in the third month of writing. When the number of words is 300,000-500,000, many writers may suddenly feel that they don't know how to write well. Because of all kinds of things, there is no writing. A long time ago, when I was working on another website, I signed the pencil sharpener of an author who wrote Rhapsody in Battle. Once I got up at two or three in the middle of the night and saw that his Q was still on. He is also a man with a job. In the middle of the book, he is extremely painful to write, and often he can't write a word for hours. It is easy for any newcomer to write the beginning. In the middle, he began to feel a little difficult. 700,000 to 800,000 words is the most difficult time. They are all anticlimactic, dragging their words to talk. I have read tens of thousands of books in recent years, and few can read well. After this, most of the authors with good endings have successfully completed sublimation. After the first hurdle, they became famous writers, and even many people took off and started writing professionally.

Let's talk about the appropriate way for the signing author to meet the first hurdle.

Leave a bookmark, there is always something worth recommending. A book must be signed for a reason, right? What is its highlight? Why do so many readers like it?

Many authors themselves don't know why my bookmark is closed and why my book is on fire.

Therefore, when you continue to write, it is very easy to ignore your own advantages and choose your own shortcomings.

Many books may have a high subscription at first, but later they became less and less, and a large number of readers lost, and the books ended hastily. And some authors persisted, not only realized, but also successfully transformed.

Many authors like to analyze data. In fact, in my opinion, what should be analyzed is the first half of their work. Where it attracts readers, it is its own bright color.

The editor is just a veteran reader. There will be mistakes and omissions. I often say that a good editor doesn't mean that he can find all the good books. This is god's business, not the editor's. As long as the book he likes is liked by many readers, then he is qualified. When the editors signed the contract, most people had read the book. The author might as well ask readers what are the advantages of this book, or why they like reading it.

Communication with readers is very important. Because it is not the editor who subscribes to the author's book, but the reader who subscribes. Some experienced readers have a better eye for reading than editors. As for which readers are advanced readers, it is up to the author to find out.

The first level is roughly like this. An author who wants to do business writing should try to sign a contract first. The net text is certainly not as simple as imagined, otherwise there are too many people who can eat this bowl of rice.

From Profession to Profession —— Triple Obstacles of Network Authors (2)

After finishing the first VIP work, the author will face two choices, one is to open a new book, and the other is to retire from the Jianghu. Most retired authors don't live by code words, so we will only discuss authors who want to open new books.

Opening a new book is the second hurdle for online authors.

Countless gods encountered obstacles in the new book, so they crossed the sky like meteors, leaving only a masterpiece and a new work with no beginning and no end.

Many authors didn't notice this and wasted the popularity of the first book. There are too few resounding names on the Internet. Many people know this book, but they don't know the author. Hao Wai, who wrote "Dude", was the author with the largest subscription and popularity in that year, but his reputation was not loud. In the second book, Wen Lan's Charming Morning of the Lonely Master also encountered this hurdle. Writing The Legend of the Tycoon is fascinating, and it is also an author that I highly admired in those years. But I wasted a lot of popularity by opening a new book. I was expected to rush to the front line, but I fell behind.

In the second book, many people are sloppy. In fact, it doesn't matter if you can meet the third hurdle, because most people stop at this hurdle.

Open a new book, there are four points to pay attention to:

The first is how the popularity of old books is passed on to new books.

Second, how to operate the new book?

Third, what should I do if I encounter a bottleneck?

Fourth, whether to change jobs?

On the first question, my suggestion is: study the readership, and don't make a hasty transformation.

(Let's talk about some digressions before. Probably the author's fame and the length of the book. I will open a special post to talk about it later. )

Network writing, updated quickly, I call the year of the network a generation. There are new people in Jiangshan generation, only the new people are replaced by the old ones.

Many authors are afraid to open new books, so it is difficult to write millions of words in a few years. In fact, the most suitable serial length of a book is between 6 months and 1 year. Generally, a work is about 6.5438+0.2 million words, and a super red work is longer than 2 million words. Of course, different types of authors cannot be generalized. (I'm talking about the majority here, and there are many special cases. For example, a film "blasphemy" written in the misty rain south of the Yangtze River has been written for three years. For most authors, the speed of one book a year and three books every two years is the most suitable.

Time is too short to gather popularity. After reading a book in three months, the reader has not had time to become a loyal reader.

It takes a month for a book to attract the attention of many readers from publication to becoming a new book. But at this time, readers are not very loyal. Maybe you will come when you update, and run away slowly.

After signing the contract, I completed all kinds of recommendations on the website, and the work has passed about 200 thousand words, which is the beginning of the work.

In this rapidly decaying era, 200,000 words is not enough for readers to remember you. Time, at least three months, is not only the prime time of the book, but also the best time to win the favor of loyal readers.

During this period, stable updating and communication with readers are particularly important. Once it's broken for a month or two, it's hard to enter the realm of Dacheng again. At the end of the book, there may be a few months, the attraction of the book itself will decline, and the works will basically be won by loyal readers.

When it comes to loyal readers, we can't help but talk about the transformation. For the author, the popularity of a book has both accidental and inevitable reasons. Some authors are very powerful, but some are heroes created by the times. No matter how popular the author is, since he is popular, he is bound to have his own readers. An author who writes fantasy may not like reading history, while an author who writes Xian Xia may not like watching sports. Before the second threshold, I don't suggest that the author make a big transformation. Yun Tiankong is a good example.

Many people only see Yun Tiankong's popularity, but don't see how he became popular. Many people only stare at his shortcomings to compare their own advantages. I always say: everyone has something he is good at, and the stupidest thing in the world is to compare the shortcomings of others with his own advantages. Such people will never succeed.

At the beginning of online games, Yun Tiankong wrote Lucky Swordsman and the second book Fantasy Reality. At this time, he has occupied the list all the year round and has many readers. The third book, The Legend of Baal, is controversial by many people. Baal is a book in transition, from online games to fantasy worlds. At the beginning of this book, I haven't got rid of the shadow of online games, but the readers of The Legend of the Sword and the Dream Reality have read so much.

Yun Tiankong's real transformation is "mixed life". This book is commissioned by me, and it contains a little dream of Yun Tiankong, who wants to write his own things. There is no doubt that, like the blood-red Ghost, this book has received rave reviews, but its popularity has never been high enough.

Another author was previously said to be one of the two treasures of overhead history. Now, his position is still consolidated. After the Ming Dynasty, Nangui established the status of a master of history. Its readers have been very fixed and loyal, and many of them have reached the depth of experts in the discussion of history.

Readers are always the author's most precious wealth. If you want to succeed, please pay attention to the voice of readers, and then make a transformation after thinking about it.

On the second question, how to operate the new book. My suggestion is: choose a good theme, set an outline, estimate the general plot, more than 400 thousand words (if the popularity is high, you can have an extended plot, if the popularity is not high, you won't waste too much time and words), and communicate with the editor and his senior readers first.

You can listen to the communication with readers, and the decision is still in your own hands. The communication with the editor is more due to the arrangement of recommendation. If the plot doesn't fail particularly, then even if the popularity of this book is not as good as the first one, it won't be too bad. More importantly, the second book is more popular than the first one. This is the king. Of course, it is closer to the third hurdle.

On the third question, when encountering a bottleneck, my suggestion: cherish your pen name, no matter how much, and give the reader an explanation.

The sloppy opening of books leads to insufficient popularity. At this time, many people will persuade the author eunuch, and then start a new work. This can save time and effort, but have you ever thought about what kind of readers will support themselves when the book is unpopular? Is their true loyal readers. These readers are precious wealth brought by their own hard work in the process of using a book, so they abandoned it and destroyed the reputation of their first book. People's word of mouth is also slowly accumulated. Therefore, to become a god, please be kind to your readers, be kind to each of your books, no matter how long or short, finish writing your own words and give the readers an explanation.

If you are afraid of being a servant and being king, you can also adopt some overbearing methods, such as toad wanting to eat paradise food. The new book is lost. Be decisive, TJ. If you lose the new book, use your own pen name. However, this method is not feasible in 17K, so it is still not recommended. Small-scale circulation is ok, and the role of loyal readers is revealed at this time.

Every author has his own readers. If you sharpen your knife, you will surely gain more by writing hundreds of thousands of words.

On the fourth question about job-hopping, my suggestion is:

1, choose the owner first.

This is very important. Every website has a different style. Even though they are all fantasy websites, the style and positioning of 17K are still different from other websites, such as starting point, surfing wave and fantasy sword. Some of them are sincere and serious, which is determined by the readers attracted by books such as inverse dragon road, dust fate, mixed and south return. So some books can be popular on 17K, but not on other websites. Some books can't be popular in 17K, but they can be popular in other websites. Of course, with the increase of contracted works, the style of the website has also diversified, and many books that could not be read originally have a stable readership.

To be honest, whether you come to 17K or go to other websites, the author should pay attention to the composition of readers. You might as well study the books of the same style and type on the website before deciding whether to move.

2. Get ready for the boutique

If you are sure that your work can be popular on other websites, you must start preparing high-quality products. There are generally some recommended arrangements for authors who are ready to change jobs. Before jumping, try to get a chance to block the push, so the risk will be much smaller.

I've been talking about fine products, but what is fine products? There are fine products in commodities and fine products in literature. The real masterpiece is a work that carefully studies the composition of readers and the wind direction of the website and carefully writes it down. Doesn't mean you can fool you with a book just because you jump ship. This is destroying your own signboard. Job-hopping is very risky. If you can't come up with at least the same level as old books, it is extremely easy to be a servant. So readers on both sides will be lost.

What does the author rely on? It is a reader.

3. Measure your own strength.

If it is not a special god, write the second book before deciding whether to jump or not. A book is not enough to make the vast majority of authors become real gods. If you jump to other websites, your loyal readers are insufficient, and it is easy to lose your position.

Of course, society encourages normal mobility, and job-hopping can often get more preferential treatment. If we can correctly grasp the direction, we will get more benefits. What I have written is only for the author to reduce risk and succeed more safely.

From Profession to Profession —— Triple Obstacles of Network Authors (3)

This is specially written for those writers who are interested in the development of professional writing.

Before reading the following, I want to reiterate the advice of 17K and individuals with blood rewards to the author: It is absolutely not recommended that the author resign or drop out of school to write before he has a stable income.

Network writer is a brand-new profession. In this industry, there are red blood with an annual salary of one million, and there are countless unknown authors who spend time and money on code words but get nothing.

Speaking of this industry, I will briefly describe its characteristics and prospects, introduce it to those newcomers and remind them.

First, this is an industry with very low barriers to entry.

As long as you can write and have a place to surf the Internet, you can become an online author. There are hundreds of thousands of fantasy authors writing online, of which about 10 thousand have successfully signed contracts and earned income. With the continuous promotion of various websites, many people have entered this industry with the idea of gold rush, which has become the driving force for the development of new blood and online literature.

In 2003, so-and-so earned more than one thousand dollars a month!

In 2004, so-and-so had a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan!

In 2005, the highest monthly income of XXX was 70,000!

In 2006, XXX and XXX earned millions of dollars a year!

Very inspiring slogans attract groups of passionate and fighting authors to enter this industry. In 2006, the number of books in the whole online bookstore doubled, and I don't know how much the popularity has improved. While more and more people pay attention to this industry, there are also more questioning voices from deep thinking: virtual fire, overdraft and low tide. ...

Second, the income structure is an extreme pyramid.

The author entered in large numbers, but many people gave up after the income was not enough to support their own lives. The eunuch's books account for the vast majority in every bookstore. Even if a VIP contract is signed, there are not a few eunuch books. Looking through the VIP bookshelf, only one-third of them can insist on writing.

I once joked that today's online writers are similar to athletes. One is to have a youth meal, get a ticket and leave; One is the extreme imbalance of income.

Well-known authors can indeed earn millions of dollars a year, and the maximum number of subscribers can indeed reach 20,000. The income distribution of the whole website tends to high-income groups. High subscription, high popularity, high remuneration, high reward and high income will have a high publicity effect, but most VIPs continue to operate in a bleak way. Not everyone can be popular, which is what most people don't notice.

Third, the replacement is very fast, and there are few evergreen trees.

Speaking of online authors, almost all of them are talking about blood red. From 2003 to now, blood red means writing a little red book. But more writers write about one servant, one red man and three servants, and then they are silent.

The real great god writes the little red book, and there are no more than 50 such authors on the Internet.

If you choose 65,438+10,000 ordinary authors and 5,000 contracted authors, then you can see how horrible this ratio is.

If you can't be an evergreen tree, it's hard for you to be a professional writer.

The prospect of online reading is undoubtedly tortuous, but it is also extremely bright.

I have great confidence in this industry. Online reading is a trend. Although there are various problems and hidden worries in fantasy literature, it is gradually improving. It is not difficult to support the family by code words. It's just that many people are wandering outside the door and can't do it for long.

Suppose I am a newcomer, I want to be a professional writer. What should I do?

The first is to become a professional reader.

This is very important, very important. Many people are new here, have never been a reader, and have become authors. The popularity of a book is strength plus luck; The second book continues to be popular, which is a genius. I'm talking about ordinary authors, and that kind of genius is not among them.

A person's head is always limited, and the plot he may have worked hard to come up with is extremely mediocre. . Because there are too many things written online.

If you don't read enough, it will be difficult to keep up with the pace of the Internet. If you don't believe me, you can look at the style and popularity of the books a few years ago. They are not only written differently, but also salty.

If so, in order to become a freelance writer, I scanned the top 200 books in major bookstores and found that there were some problems with my ideas, so I began to adjust them.

Among many subjects, I prefer urban types. Then, I went to various bookstores to see what the most popular urban works were recently. Well, some websites are popular, such as "meat, happiness" and "lust, nudity"; Some bookstores are popular with "Hate", such as "Bewitching People" and "Facebook"; Lively and lively, the "original force" and "magic biography" of hackers; Popular realism, "mixing is a kind of life", "happy city" and so on.

I found my personal style very melancholy, so I chose "demagoguery" as my specimen.

Then, I began to study the reasons for the popularity of this book.

Why is it hot? Look at the author's name and you will suddenly realize. It turns out that this person is Tan Lang. He is good at urban literature, writes well and has some life experience.

Suddenly I found that I was only 20 years old and I didn't have enough experience in writing urban literature, so I decided to give up this book and write about urban power.

My scope has narrowed down a little, and I have determined the city power. As for how to choose materials, please see another post of Xuereward (about creativity).

After re-selecting three or five particularly popular books on urban electricity, I also opened a new book with a total word count of 400,000.

Here, I completed the second step and became an author.

Before I published the book, I wrote 60 thousand words and invited some book lovers to read it. They gave some advice. After I revised it, I got the contact information of the editor in various ways, and put the manuscript into the mailbox of 17K.

Unfortunately, it didn't pass the audit. But the editor gave me some advice and I decided to ignore it.

I decided to publish my own books on several websites.

Update 4-5 thousand words every day, and several book lovers have left messages, which shows that they like reading my books. So I contacted them by SMS in the station and chatted with them about the contents of the book, so I got some loyal book friends.

50,000 words, you can apply for recommendation on all websites. Then I tried to apply. Unfortunately, I failed again.

So I was a little shaken and decided to be a eunuch.

This is one of the endings, because after the eunuch dies, he can only open a new book or leave this circle. We will not discuss this situation.

I passed the recommendation, and then found that there were many more book lovers, and my group was full. Many friends began to give me advice.

After recommendation, my bookmark was made and I became a VIP author. And then everything. . . . . Editors of various websites will communicate with the authors, so I won't go into details here.

There are few opportunities to be recommended, and most people have no chance to be recommended. If I don't pass the recommendation, then I will quickly compress the plot of this book and try to end it at around 300,000 words, and then analyze the reasons why I am busy.

Editors are ungrateful and readers have no eyes. . . . . . . No, no, these reasons don't count. A successful person always looks for reasons in himself, but it is useless to complain.

I reopened the new book and harassed all those readers. Finally, I was lucky to be on the list of new books. Because of the improvement of writing experience, I also finished writing a book, and my self-confidence expanded. Keep updating 5000 words every day, once at noon 12 and once at 8 pm. Soon, my collection increased and the popularity of books increased. Okay, I signed the contract.

I thought I made it. Compared with those books that didn't sign up, at least I had many opportunities to recommend, so I began to save the manuscript for recommendation.

Now I have successfully completed the third step and become a VIP author.

During this period, I also did one thing, which was to contribute to the publishing house.

If I don't take this step, then I will continue to develop on VIP wholeheartedly. As long as there are 2000 subscriptions, then as long as I am not so extravagant, then I can guarantee a basic life.

So, I'm ready to do my homework. Then I got my blood in return.

This is a joke. The first book can have more than 2000 subscriptions on average (most of them need tens of thousands of collections. As for the number of these books, you can refer to the rankings of major book stations. It should also be noted that subscriptions are extremely unstable. Generally, the subscription of 2000 requires about 2500-3000 subscriptions, so it is not easy to write the first book.

Of course, if two other things happen, then I can basically be sure: I am one step closer to being a professional writer.

First, I published it.

Many people don't know the publishing market, so I'll talk about it briefly. There are simplified and traditional publications (mainly sold in Taiwan Province Province). We want to thank the publishing houses in Taiwan Province Province, because they have nurtured the "most" professional authors. What I say the most is not exaggeration. Because the publishing author's income is relatively stable (only relative to the electronic version), the monthly income is thousands or tens of thousands, even if a book has six episodes, it is enough to support half a year.

Many people become professional writers, starting with publishing. Although the sales volume is not good, it will be halved, but as long as you are willing to work hard, the average author is also doing well. Although the competition is fierce, it is at least easier than the online version.

Of course, there are still many hidden rules of publication. The tastes of publishing houses, the influx of more and more authors, and the shrinking publishing market have also brought many difficulties to the professionalization of newcomers (these issues may be discussed in other posts).

However, whatever you do, there are risks, right? No one can succeed casually. Why do I always find it so easy to make money?

So I took care of the online version of the update (never stop, otherwise the popularity will be gone), while trying to modify the manuscript for publication. During the period, I also talked a lot with publishing editors and learned about some traditional markets.

In the simplified market, it is basically difficult for newcomers to get money. Most of them are for fame or to satisfy their own wishes. Fantasy writers point to this to make money. It is better to switch to romance, youth, city and pure history as early as possible.

Second, I betrayed.

Fortunately, I was bought out of the electronic version (and some bought out of the full version) by the website. The price is not high, but as a newcomer, I can also gain something, and after several months of accumulation, I suddenly found that my passbook has five digits. But unfortunately, I became lazy. I like this free life. You can have a good time by submitting your manuscript every month.

So, I have to subcontract the manuscript to the gunman. Then, I was KO by the website.

Of course, this is a joke. On the Internet, pen names are as precious as life. How can I destroy them easily?

But a book will come to an end anyway. Although the buyout has made me live a stable life for several months, I must always think about the future, right?

Moreover, as a newcomer, I don't have enough writing experience, and the plot behind me is chaotic, procrastinating and drooling, which is not wonderful. Anyway, my grades are not good, so I have to prepare myself first, so as not to be kicked in the ass by the website editor, and my faces on both sides are not good-looking.

So, I began to prepare a new book.

I have to find some posts written by editors to talk about the experience of old authors, and I also need to communicate with them at ordinary times. I heard that red blood is thirty ideas. Find someone to write, and Yun Tiankong writes for more than ten times at the beginning. I was a little scared, but in order to make the next book more popular, I decided to spell it. ...

Best result:

1 the first bookmark, and it is a buyout. Because the book is bought out, the website will definitely push it to the dead, otherwise it will be overwhelmed by the boss;

2 signed a copy, but with all kinds of recommendations, even the opportunity to push.

I published it and hooked up with the editor of the publishing house. They even invited my new book because it sold well.

My new book inherits the popularity of the old book and is even more popular. For the question of opening a new book, you can refer to other posts about blood reward. )

Medium results:

1' s first bookmark, not pushed, but at least pushed and pushed. With thousands of readers, the subscription fee is enough to support the family once in a while. . . . That's absolutely impossible.

There is publication, but it is made by an intermediary, and the price is relatively low. And because of poor sales, only four copies were published, which was halved.

3 Full-size new books. . . . . . Let's wait for servant street to be delisted.

Worst result:

1, I didn't sign the contract. I insist on writing. . . . . . . It may be over, or it may be a eunuch. Who knows?

2, I am a eunuch, I am a eunuch, I am a eunuch, I am a eunuch. . . .

Unfortunately, my publication failed.

I woke up from my dream. I go to find a job and occasionally look at the bookshelf to console myself.

The longer you stay in this circle, the more you know, so whether you decide to leave this circle, get a ticket, or prepare to be a professional writer, it's your choice.

However, I understand one thing: originality, like other industries, is hard to make money without hard work. If you are not sure, you can look at the once brilliant new book of the Great God, or the battlefield full of corpses. Promotion of the website? Hehe, I won't be fooled. Zhang Chaoyang became Sohu and made a lot of money. That doesn't mean I can start a website and make a lot of money, does it? Others earn millions a year, and never a penny goes into my pocket. I'd better write my own words honestly.

Well, I was severely hit by the editor and suddenly found hundreds of mountains lying in front of me.

To write or not to write is really a question.

Of course, perhaps, I can succeed; Perhaps, I can bear hardships; Perhaps, I don't want to see the boss's dark face again; Perhaps, I yearn for a free life.

So I decided to write professionally. Before that, what I need to prepare is:

1, a computer that knows code words.

2. Deposits that have not worked for at least three months and will not starve to death.

3. Perfect exercise plan.

Kindness reminder: when you are young, don't exchange health for money, so as not to exchange money for health in the future.

Conclusion: The three thresholds written in this paper, the first is to sign a contract, and the second is to open a new book, are all true. There is only a third way, in your heart. Like a door, there are four big characters written on it: professional author. On the left side of the couplet, it says: annual salary is one million, and on the right side, it says: nothing. You must choose whether to enter or not.

No one will know what is behind the door, only those who go in will know. I can only give a description of the situation. If you believe in heaven rewarding diligence and read my post, you might as well give it a try.